Clear and concrete advice in oral and written form for getting ready to write, developing ideas, revising, editing, and polishing work, plus an instructor guide, help avoiding plagiarism, and links to external resources. Suitable for low-intermediate learners and beyond.

The International CALL Research conferences focus on the role of technology in the language-learning and teaching process. The XIXth edition will take place in Bruges (Belgium) from 4 to 6 July 2018 and will explore the issue of Open Data, Information and Content. We define ‘Open’ as incorporating the qualities of being accessible, exchangeable, sustainable, reusable and useful. Every CALL practitioner and researcher is confronted on a daily basis with the challenges and issues associated with the use of Data, sometimes massive amounts of it, where Data can become Information and/or Content depending on our goals.

Under the label ‘international’, synonymous with modernity and attractiveness, English, often portrayed as ‘the language of internationalization’ . The aim of this special issue is to pay a closer look not only on the policy of English as academia lingua franca , but also on other linguistic contexts and constellations in the following scenarios: - teachers whose first language is the institutional/local langue and teach in another language; - teachers whose first language is not the institutional/local language teach in the institutional/local language; - teachers whose first language is not the institutional/local language teach in another language .

The notion of ‘ interlanguage ’ has been central to the development of the field of research on second- language acquisition (SLA) and continues to exert a strong influence on both the development of SLA theory and the nature of the central issues in that field.

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First published in 1999, this article relies on references to research published in the 1970s and 1980s

The CEFR Companion Volume with New Descriptors (Provisional Edition) is now available. The French version will be published in late autumn. It is intended as a complement to the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages: Learning, teaching, assessment (CEFR). It represents another important step in a process that has been pursued by the Council of Europe since 1971 and owes much to the contributions of members of the language teaching profession across Europe and beyond. The “Companion Volume” is the Council of Europe’s response to requests that have been made by the groups involved in the field of language education to complement the original illustrative scales with more descriptors. In addition to the extended illustrative descriptors, it contains an introduction to the aims and main principles of the CEFR.

Venue: Canadian Centre for Studies and Research on Bilingualism and Language Planning (CCERBAL), Official Languages and Bilingualism Institute (OLBI), University of Ottawa.

Conference dates: May 3-4, 2018.

Deadline for proposals: December 15, 2017.

Featured events: Round tables and thematic symposia on Linguistic Risk-Taking, Bilingual and Multilingual Policies, and much more.

Conference theme: Translanguaging, a construct referring to the complex use of more than one language as a (combined) resource, has captured the imagination of researchers, educators, and policy makers around the world. The role of translanguaging as a linguistic and social practice in family, community, educational and institutional contexts raises a number of stimula